Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

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indirect

UK /ˌɪn.daɪˈɹɛkt/ · US /ˌɪn.dɪˈɹɛkt/ adjective, noun, verb

Forms indirects indirecting indirected

  1. adjective Not direct: “While not mentioning any of their competitors by name, the CEO made some indirect statements that they were acting immorally.”
  2. adjective Not of obvious or immediate cause, but as a secondary result. “The direct result of socialising every day in the bars may be happiness and meeting new people, but the indirect results could be addiction, or even poverty.”
  3. adjective Not focused straight at the target or subject; whose true aim appears secondary or obscure.
  4. adjective Not involving the quickest, shortest, or most convenient path; oblique. “In an effort to beat the traffic jams, they opted to take an indirect route to their destination.”
  5. adjective (mathematics, logic, of a proof) Employing argument by contradiction; making use the law of the excluded middle; arguing via the contrapositive.
  6. adjective Figuratively
  7. adjective (archaic) Not straightforward, fair, or honest; corrupt.
  8. noun (finance) An indirect cost.
  9. noun An indirect radiator.
  10. verb (programming, transitive) To access by means of indirection; to dereference.

Synonyms

circuitous roundabout collateral

Antonyms

direct

Etymology

From Middle French indirect, from Late Latin indirectus (“not direct”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Not direct; not straight or rectilinear; deviating from a direct line or course; circuitous; as, an indirect road.
  2. adjective Not tending to an aim, purpose, or result by the plainest course, or by obvious means, but obliquely or consequentially; by remote means; as, an indirect accusation, attack, answer, or proposal.

Etymology [Pref. in- not + direct: cf. F. indirect.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “indirect”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “indirect” (best matches first).

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